The economy is in tatters; your job is in trouble–if you still have a job.

We live in troubled times. The last few years have brought us a steady parade of fear and panic in the headlines, boardrooms, and kitchen tables across America. Globalization, outsourcing, downsizing, foreclosures, subprime mortgages and credit default swaps, ponzi schemes, Wall Street fiascoes, recession… it’s just one piece of bad news after another.

During the first few months of 2009, U.S. company layoffs reached about a quarter-million per month. As this is written in 2009, unemployment is at 10.2 percent and still rising, and underemployment (where your job stays in place but your hours and pay are drastically cut back) is even worse. The rampant decline in gainful employment is a ravaging epidemic to which few are immune. From executives and middle managers to administration employees and blue-collar workers, from bankers to retail clerks, all are at risk. Even the healthcare industry, until recently considered a job-safe zone, is trimming away significant chunks of its workforce.

In a 2009 USA Today survey, 60 percent of Americans polled said they see today’s economic situation as the biggest crisis in their lifetime.

In the fall of 2008, a lot of people’s retirement portfolios suddenly lost half their value–or more. Real estate crashed. What people thought were their solid, reliable assets turned out to be about as solid as water vapor. Job security is gone, a thing of the past.

Of course, you already know all this. But here’s what you may not know. None of this is really news. Sure, it took a major economic crisis for people to start waking up to the fact that their livelihoods were at risk. But your income didn’t at risk overnight–it was always at risk.

Most of the U.S. population has been living for years on the knife-edge precipice between solvency and ruin, relying on the next paycheck or two to meet each month’s expenses, typically with only a very thin cushion of cash savings–or more often no cushion at all. That paycheck is called “trading time for money,” and during a recession, it is the least reliable source of income there is. Why? Because when the number of employed people starts dropping, there is less disposable income in circulation to pay for your time. (an excerpt from “Business of the 21st Century” by Robert Kiyosaki)

Ladies and Gentlemen, if you are still trading time for money in 2014 you are looking at a significantly upsetting future for yourself and your family. The opportunities that are available to us today in terms of income diversification and residual cash-flow are outstanding. The problem we face in our society today is FEAR, people are afraid of change, they are afraid of going against the system and beating it. When we honestly think of a job as security it is the first terror barrier that we must conclude as FALSE. After this drastic realization we begin to open our minds and look for a better way.

At this point in life we must re-educate ourselves and play by the new rules. Learning is the key to lasting change in a dying society. We must embrace the fact that we NEED to take our lives into our own hands and become who we are destined to be. Educate “yourself” on finances, “yourself” on leadership, “yourself” on history, etc…. We need to create a movement of learning new information and we can bring large communities together and help them WIN!

If you need a crash course on finances and don’t know where to begin I’d recommend reading books like; “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” “Cash Flow Quadrant,” “Business of the 21st Century,” or even go through the “Financial Fitness Pk” from Orrin Woodward & Chris Brady. If you need a crash course on Leadership I’d start by reading “Launching a Leadership Revolution” and “Leadershift” both of these book are phenomenal. When it comes to politics study history yourself, study our founding fathers and how they thought and what they studied, study the sacrifices that were made so we can live in freedom, and study what it will take for us to maintain it.

It’s not to late to completely change your life, start today! Make disciplined decisions on a daily basis and WIN!!!

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About Cory R. Kromray

Cory has a background in, Leadership Systems, Entrepreneurial/Self-Directed Education, Community Building, Industry Analysis, Network Marketing, LIFE Coaching, and Motivational Speaking. At the age of 22, Cory realized he was “sick and tired of living a life based on his obligations, versus a life based on his own priorities.” Cory fell in with a leadership development company called Team in 2008 and started his journey in the Network Marketing Industry. After 10 months of leadership application and learning the systems of network marketing Cory left his job never to return to work again. Cory has become very successful in multiple companies since then and has grown as a national industry trainer and mentor. Cory is destined yet again to help thousands of people reach significance in their lives.
Cory is an avid reader, golfer, adventurist, loves boating, water skiing, fishing, snowmobiling, and really “anything extreme”. ”I live my life one day at a time with one focus in mind, MY DREAM. My intentions for the near future are to become one of the most admired Leaders in the Community Building Industry, standing along side some of the most courageous men and women I have ever had the privilege of knowing. “My biggest dream of all, is to be known for the amount of value I’ve created into the world of leadership and to have a significant impact when it comes to maintaining our country's Freedom.” I strongly believe that in order to maintain the freedoms that we take for granted today, we must educate our neighbors and teach them how to become Entrepreneurs. - Taking the responsibility for there own future. That's how this country was founded, and that's how it shall remain free.